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Charles H. Revson Foundation

If We Want to Strengthen Democracy, Let's Start in Our Back Yard

Release Date:

04/14/2021

... conceal deep participation disparities by neighborhood, income and education level, ethnicity, and race. ...

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Insights

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Civic Engagement

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The New York Community Trust

Ford Foundation

The Three Vs for Voter Engagement: Validators, Volunteers and Visibility

Release Date:

08/26/2022

... volunteers. MinKwon Center, which organizes low- income Korean and Asian immigrant communities, mobilized a ...

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Civic Engagement

Public Policy

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The New York Community Trust

Trinity Church Philanthropies

29 Nov 2012

Social Media: Promising techniques used by social media-savvy funders

Thursday, November 29, 2012 -

11:00am to 1:00pm

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... increasingly bombarded with seemingly limitless streams of data . This webinar series will help foundation staff ... highway by focusing on key strategies and useful data sources for funders. In addition to...

31 Jan 2013

Knowledge Management: Strategies for making sector knowledge more accessible

Thursday, January 31, 2013 -

11:00am to 1:00pm

Webinar

Simons Foundation Among Backers of $28 Million Autism Treatment Study

Release Date:

07/29/2015

... disorders are treated. The Yale team will collect data in Connecticut from preschoolers and school-aged ... children affected by autism spectrum disorders. The data then will be evaluated along with ...

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Health

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The Simons Foundation

Former NYC Official & Former Philadelphia Mayor Named 'What Works Cities' Senior Fellows (Bloomberg)

Release Date:

02/08/2016

... What Works Cities as they expand their use of data and evidence to improve residents’ lives. The WWC ... largest ever philanthropic efforts to enhance the use of data and evidence in the public sector. “...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

City Outside Monrovia Admitted to 100 Resilient Cities Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation

Release Date:

12/01/2016

The City of Paynesville, outside Monrovia, has been admitted to the group of 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation and dedicated to helping member cities around the world become more resilient to physical, social, and...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Bloomberg-supported Cities Work on Assembling the Open Government Puzzle

Release Date:

09/27/2017

... and Atmospheric Administration began releasing weather data in the 1970s, government and its surrounding community ... granting the public some royal benignity, but that those data sets and knowledge should...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Research Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads To Passwords In Clothing

Release Date:

11/02/2017

... Gollakota has demonstrated a method for encoding digital data , including ID tags and security keys, into electrically ... then can be read out using magnetometers. A report on the data -weaving experiment was...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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09 Mar 2022

New York City Workforce Funders Collaborative Quarterly Meeting

Wednesday, March 9, 2022 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... workforce development system. The lack of a comprehensive data infrastructure to track program outcomes has long been ... improving—the system. Indeed, the lack of a unified data system may hamstring efforts...

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Issue-Based

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All Funders

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Information Technology

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Workforce Development

Beyond the IRS: Communicating Your Foundation’s 990-PF

Release Date:

12/21/2011

... to the IRS, the 990-PF is now the most commonly used data source about private foundations. How and what you ... we do cross-reference our financial information on the online version, which allows people to...

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All Funders

Open Society Foundations Announce 2021 New Executives Fund Recipients

Release Date:

06/15/2021

... crises threatening our common future, to increase resources for systemic alternatives that support justice, ... networks. Before that, she co-founded and led The Hmm, a platform for contemporary visual culture...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Leadership Development

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Open Society Foundations

01 Feb 2012

Diminishing Dollars: The Impact of the 2008 Financial Crisis on the Field of Social Justice Philanthropy with Sara Gould

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 -

7:45am to 11:00am

... too often plays a cursory role in conversations about the economy , nonprofits, and social change. Now, a new report ... of Philanthropy New York’s Wealth, Endowments and the Economy Series . Presenters Sara K...

Peterson Foundation Says Obama Budget Doesn’t Address Unsustainable Debt

Release Date:

02/09/2016

... budget keeps the debt from rising as a share of the economy over the next ten years, it does not sufficiently ... debt on a sustainable path, which is critical to grow our economy ." For the president...

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Economic Security

Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Markle Foundation President and CEO Zoë Baird Writes About Where Amazon Should Build Their New Headquarters

Release Date:

12/05/2017

... labor market that prepares workers for the digital economy . History has shown that the quality of a skilled ... lost manufacturing jobs to technology since 2000, and our economy is especially struggling to...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Workforce Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces 14 Finalists In The Running For Its 2018 Public Art Challenge

Release Date:

07/18/2018

Proposals Address a Range of Issues from Sustainability to Immigration – Selected Cities Span from Anchorage to Honolulu

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Arts

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Peterson Foundation and Ford Foundation Announce Grants for US 2050 Initiative

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08/21/2018

... technological changes will reshape the domestic and global economy , and the nation's fiscal condition will face ... changing and we know that our population, workforce, and economy will look very...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Ford Foundation

JPMorgan Chase Commits $6 Million to Prepare Greater Washington Area Students for Local, In-Demand Jobs

Release Date:

12/06/2018

... workers in the Greater Washington region. As the regional economy grows, these investments are designed to increase the ... to create opportunity for more people and grow the local economy so that everyone...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Pennsylvania Joins Skillful State Network, Initiative of the Markle Foundation

Release Date:

04/18/2019

... college degrees, can get good jobs in the changing economy . “Pennsylvania businesses are hiring, and new and ... prepare workers for in-demand careers that will grow our economy .” Launched in 2018, the State...

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